OH, YES: This Is What a 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Coupe Would Look Like

If you liked our illustrations of the 2016 Miata shooting brake—and especially if you didn’t—feast your eyes on the same artist’s interpretation of an ND MX-5 Miata with a more conventional fixed lid.

While we’re suckers for wagons of all stripes—which includes shooting brakes, natch—we can’t deny the slinky gorgeousness of this short-roof design. We see a lot of FD RX-7 in the domed roof, and we particularly like how the quarter windows in this proposal allow the side window graphic to remain radiused in the C-pillar area, perfectly in character with the rest of the car’s rounded design. Perhaps somewhat less likely than the coupe body as a whole is the hatchback cutline rendered here, but we can dream, right?

A coupe like this one is eminently more marketable than a wagon and an easier sell to the powers that be, and it could also be stiffer than the ragtop—a tantalizing possibility for track duty. We know the Mazda guys. They like coupes. They like racetracks. And here’s hoping they like the idea of a fixed-top Miata as much as we do.